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The way it works is interesting. Instead of having the scanning part hang over the paper causing shadows and flash burn, the head sweeps forward and does some crazy depth of field calculations to adjust for the angle, height and curves of the page.

The device feels very sturdy and heavy, which is what you want from a vertical scanner. If you are nervous about it getting knocked over, it comes with optional braces with a slightly sticky bottom to hold it down.

At the beginning of this post, I said that the SV600 was not just a book scanner, and here is another example. It can detect multiple pieces of paper and detect that they should be multiple documents.

Even though the form factor is completely different, at the end of the day, this is a ScanSnap. If you are familiar with using any of the other models like the ScanSnap iX500, the ScanSnap S1300i, or the ScanSnap S1100, the workflow will be similar.

There is the Quick Menu, and most things can be automated using ScanSnap Manager Profiles just like any other model. The OCR is the bundled version of ABBYY FineReader, and you can send the resulting scans to Acrobat or any other application.

The ScanSnap SV600 lists for $795, and as usual I will keep my eye on the various online sites to see when it is available in the wild it has popped up on Amazon. In the meantime, if you have any questions, fire away in the comments.

Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

Please do you know if I can make the background transparent with the SV600 scanner? or the quickest way to remove background. When I am using my scanner to scan a picture with curves on edges of document the black background shows on the edges. Would be great if had an option to have it transparent if needed to and will save me a lot of time in correcting manually.

Blueman: I want to know more about your experience, particularly on the TWAIN/ISIS driver installation. At this point, the Scansnap sv600 is a great headache for us, because it simply cannot capture tiff images!

I also ended up getting an Epson DS-510 scanner for $279.99 from Best Buy. I decided against the Fujitsu ix500 because some of the reviews mentioned it did not handle thin pages (like those of a magazine or comic book) very well, either missing some pages or worse mangling them!

Question for you Brooks: When you use the book scanner mode I figure it will scan into the application that allows you to go into the check/correct process (to remove fingers and things like that). What happens after that? Can the results be directly pushed into Acrobat or Evernote once you did corrections? e.g. is the check/correct process just an intermediate step towards the final output?

I am hoping someone can comment on the portability of the thing? I travel a lot from library to library to track down things I need and currently use the CanoScan LIDE 210. Does the ScanSnap travel well?

It amazes me what man can come up with. This is the best scanner of its type on the market, I also have a S1500 and the SV600 software works well with it. I use it on a Mac book pro with parallel and windows 7. The software is a little stronger on the windows side.

Hi everyone, I did another book sample just in case the underlining in the original sample was causing problems. Here's a link to the file. You can judge the OCR yourself. It looks pretty good to me, for scanner-bundled OCR. If you want anything more than this, you'd want to scan without OCR turned on and then use a third party OCR package.

Hi Emilio, I'd talk to Fujitsu (or another vendor) directly about your requirements if you are talking thousands of books. Not to say that the SV600 couldn't handle it, it possibly could, but they might be able to tailor something directly to yours needs.

In my opinion this device leaves a lot to be desired in it's OCR functionality, but perhaps this is not the perfect example upon which to judge the product because of the underlining that was done on the page.

I'll add that, as long time Fujitsu user of a variety of their scanners, I scan to pdf without OCR, port to Acrobat Pro and OCR there for a higher level of accuracy. I realize that means you have to own a copy of Acrobat Pro too, but if you are going to shell out the cash for a machine of this quality, you should have pro level software too. ABBYY is excellent but no what is used in commercial shops for a reason, Acrobat is the industry standard. Fujitsu couldn't license Acrobat cost effectively, so, ABBYY.

Unlike you, I want the image layer of searchable PDFs to be faithful to the original; as no OCR software can be completely error-free, I never want to see the converted text in the image layer (that's especially important for documents that have legal or financial significance, such as a contract).

I do a lot of scanning of paper copy into my DEVONthink Pro Office databases using a ScanSnap iX500. This DEVONthink application includes a version of ABBYY OCR software, and I've found its text recognition more accurate than Acrobat Pro for Mac.

As a test, I re-OCRed one of the examples, the one that includes Medieval images and references. I then compared the accuracy of my capture to the original cache PDF. The original had numerous recognition errors. My capture had only one error in the text conversion of page 163, "bedefined" instead of "be defined" in addition to those I would have expected that resulted from hyphenated words at line endings. all of the terms and phrases on that page that would likely be of interest for searching, such as "Domesday Book", were correctly recognized in my re-OCR using ABBYY in DEVONthink Pro Office. That certainly wasn't true of the original OCR of that page.

My remaining reservation is the degree of text curvature on some pages of book images. This seems variable in successive captures from the same book. Can practice improve this? Is text line curve straightening of the image as good on the Mac as on a PC?

Thanks for the review. The brochure for this scanner mentions jpeg and pdf as possible file types. Are there any others? I'm specifically wondering if you can output as an uncompressed tiff. Also, what's the bit depth on the color/grayscale scans? Is it 24 (color) and 8 (gray)? Thanks so much.

I don't believe the ScanSnap has Box.com integration built in (surprising when you think about it). Off the top of my head, what you could probably do is install Box Sync on your computer and scan to a folder and have it upload that way?

actually I am looking for a standalone contactless scanner that is connected to the cloud storage. Since all the documents are stored in the cloud, it would be great to have a scanner that operates without the computer.

I have a visual handicap so am looking for a way to scan books, ocr them and have them read to me by my computer. Professional accessibility toys tend to be huge, pricey and lagging at least 3 years behind current technology. The scansnap looks perfect for my needs.

When it comes to mac version coming "soon", do you have any more clarifications from fujitsu. Another question I had, if I did pick up the windows only SV600, is it possible that this will be the same unit used for mac and any possibilities of getting the mac software without purchasing the mac version, my hope is that they don't make another SKU like the S1500 M vs "non-M"

I don't have any more information, unfortunately Albert. I'll try to see what I can find out about hardware vs. software when the Mac version eventually comes out. Generally Fujitsu is pretty tight-lipped about upcoming products, but I'll find out what I can.

Brooks, thanks for sharing this. I've been lusting for a while now after something that can copy books and magazines: this might be it. (The best alternative I found was the setup at , but it looked to be pretty pricey.)

Did you keep the scans from your auto-page turn video? I'm interested to see how good the results are with a book that has a tight spine, or a thick spine so the inner gutters are significantly curved. Would it work using glass or perspex to keep it flat? Or a v-shaped stand, or a frame similar to the one discussed in your DIY post you linked to above?

Not sure about using glass. Unfortunately I don't have anything to test that out with. But it does do a very good job making it flat, even when the page is curved. The British history book I referenced above ( -middle-ages.pdf) was quite curved when I scanned it too.

DocumentSnap was created by Brooks Duncan (that's me). I started it in 2008 as I was going through my paperless journey. Now I share what works (and what doesn't) so you know exactly how to go paperless yourself.